Safety Concerns

Safety Concerns
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Safety Concerns
Find an unsafe condition, act, or situation. Write your report on your findings, and why you feel it is an unsafe situation.
According to Schroder (11), unsafe acts refer to the performance of an activity or other task that is conducted in a manner that could threaten the health and/or safety of workers or other people. Thus, this paper will identify an unsafe act and explain why it is unsafe.
Using defective equipment
This unsafe act involves using equipment that is supposed to help people, but it instead hurts (Schroder 13). In the hospital sector for instance, when a health facility provides medical equipment for patients’ use, it can be held accountable if the device or equipment malfunctions and causes injuries to a patient. Health facilities can be held accountable in medical malpractice or negligence if they fail to maintain their equipment ...